NO MORE: Ain't Half Hot Mum will not be shown on BBC anymore due to racial issues [BBC]

The comedy about the Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India during World War Two – starring Windsor Davies, 83, and the late Don Estelle – used to pull in more than 15 million viewers when it was on telly.

But it courted controversy for having the late English actor Michael Bates donning dark make-up to play Indian character Rangi Ram.

Despite the fact the Beeb often repeats old comedies, including Dad’s Army and Are You Being Served, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum has been barred from a comeback.

The show’s writer Jimmy Perry, now 90, is furious about their decision and rages in Radio Times: “You might as well be in Stalin’s Russia. You don’t want to upset anyone.”